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Russia To Build Nuclear Science Center in Vietnam
9 April 2023
EIRNS—Following a meeting with VINATOM, Vietnam’s Atomic Energy agency, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said a contract to build a nuclear science center will soon be signed. “The Russian contractor is currently drafting a tender proposal,” Chernyshenko said. The center will be built in the Vietnamese province of Dong Nai while the contract will be signed by Russia’s state corporation Rosatom and Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) in 2023, Chernyshenko said at a meeting with the management of VINATOM on Friday. “We are considering the institute as a prospective partner… to create a Center of nuclear science and technology on the basis of a cutting-edge research reactor in the province of Dong Nai jointly with the Rosatom state corporation,” he said. “The Russian contractor is currently drafting a tender proposal. I would suggest setting a date to sign the contract. On our part, we will provide instructions to Rosatom if the tender is opened on April 18, to get the contract signed on a most important date for both sides,” he added. He suggested the contract should be signed on June 30, when a monument marking a century since first Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh visited St. Petersburg will be officially unveiled in Russia’s second-biggest city, since “it would be very symbolic to get the contract signed in time for the monument’s opening.” Earlier in his official visit to Vietnam, the Deputy Premier said Russia was ready to build Vietnam’s first nuclear reactor. [dea]
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